Lauren Oliver Quotes
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
